Kaizer Chiefs legend, Joseph “Banks” Sethlodi believes that Bafana Bafana should be motivated going to the Confederations Cup in June. The festival of Champions will kick off at Coca Cola Park with Bafana Bafana taking on Iraq.

Banks who kept goals uninterrupted for the Glamour Boys for more than a decade also participated in the Kaizer Chiefs Executive Golf Day held in Bryanston on Monday was speaking to kaizerchiefs.com on Tuesday.

“The players have all the reasons to be motivated ahead of this tournament,” highlighted Banks.

“I have always had my opinions about the set up in the national team but that aside. I don’t know if it will happen again in the lifetime of the players in that team that two of the biggest tournaments in the sporting world be hosted here at home…to me that is a biggest motivating factor for the players,” said the outspoken goalkeeping legend.”

“We need to be aggressive to match the European and American opposition. I am of the belief that if our players can lift themselves then we stand a good chance of putting up a good show come June.”

On the squad Banks said the attention should be in the whole team as compared to ‘certain departments or individuals within the team’, “The team should come first,” he said.

“We might have a very good goalkeeper in Itumeleng Khune who I believe has more than a decade of football but we need to pay more attention to all the departments. The onus now is in the Technical Team to put a balanced team that will make the country proud. The fans should go all out in support of the boys,” added Banks.

Joseph ‘Banks’ Sethlodi turned out for Kaizer Chiefs X1 back in 1969 and was one of the founding players back in 1970. He remained with the side for 14 years and had a stint as joint coach alongside the late Eliakim Khumalo (Doctor Khumalo’s father) back in 1981.